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MEMORIAL 



OF THE 



COLLEGIE LIFE 



OF THE 



CLASS OF 1827, DAKTIOUTH COLLEGE: 



A CENTENARY CONTRIBUTION TO THE HISTORY OF THEIR 

ALMA MATER. 



By ALPHEUS CROSBY, 

IN BEHALF OF THE CLASS 



" The Past I The Past I 
The young, the bright, the happy, beauteous Past I 
Our hearts will never let thee go ; thy scenes 
Are deep enshrined as Memory's priceless wealth; 
While yet we love the Present; and with step 
Unflagging, firm, — our eye aglow with hope, — 
March toward the Future's promise infinite." 



HANOYER, N. H. : 

CENTENNIAL YEAR OF THE COLLEGE, 
1869-70. 



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" One heart-born pleasure for our Student-race 
Is to behold a Classmate's well-known face. 
"We do not meet him like another man ; 
He starts emotions that no other can. 
Whether in throngs or wastes our footsteps bend, 
Meet but a Classmate, and we meet a friend. 

" Who can forget the famed centennial year. 
When Dartmouth hailed her sons from far and near ? 
What joy, what beckonings, what exchanged surprise, 
As at each other flashed inquiring eyes I 
How changed, yet how the same, ourselves we found, 
Since last we parted on that classic ground." 

Rev. S. Gilman, D. £>. 



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FREFACE. 



The following brief Sketch is reprinted without change from the second 
edition of " A Memorial of the Class of 1827, Dartmouth College." 
The first edition of this Memorial was prepared by the late Dr. Jonathan 
Fox Worcester, of Salem, at the request and for the use of the Class, and 
was printed in 1853. It was desired by the Class that a second edition 
should be printed in the Centennial Year of the College. Preparation was 
accordingly made for this by the Author; but his lamented death, on the 
8th of September last, after a long-protracted illness, snatched him from us 
before his work went to the press. 

By his request and the vote of the Class, the care of the printing then 
devolved upon the present writer; and in the attempt to discharge this 
office, he could not resist the belief, strengthened by the suggestions and 
requests of other s, that there was room for an addition to the work. The 
Memorial had presented only the history of the members of the Class before 
entering College and after leaving it. It had not treated at all of that 
UNITED LIFE FOR FOUR YEARS which had bouud US SO closely to each other; 
and which certainly, after an interval of more than forty years, might well 
be put upon record, both to keep its colors bright among memory's pictures 
in our own minds, and for the information of our families and of others 
who might wish to learn how four years of college life were spent so many 
years ago. An attempt was therefore made, which is here presented, to 
draw as exact a portraiture of this life as documents and memory could 
furnish; to show in authentic details, without exaggeration, diminution, or 
embellishment, where we were, what we did, through what scenes wr, 
passed, and with whom we were chiefly associated, while members of 
College. 

If the survivors of every class would do the same, what full materials we 
should thus have for a history of the College during the greater part of its 
existence 1 The time has certainly come when its history, so remarkable, 
so fraught with interest and even romance, ought to be written ; and every 
year's delay is now rendering the work more difficult and more liable to 
defect and error. Since so much has been done so admirably by the Rev. 
Dr. Chapman for the biography of the Alumni of the Institution,* it seems 
especially unbecoming that the biography of the Mother of them all should 

* Our gratitude is also due to the much lamented Rev. Dr. Richards, for his 
zealous labors in the same field. 



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IV. PREFACE. 

be neglected. Is she not old enough for the biographer's pen, when now 
commencing her second century ; and does not the completion of the first 
offer an eminently appropriate occasion for its use ? May we not then hope 
that the biographer of the Alumni will add this to his other work; or that 
the author of the admirable Historical Address at the last Commencement 
will permit us to regard that as only the first-fruits of a full in-gathering ? 
If neither of these will consent to reap the field which is so " white already 
to harvest," will not some other loyal son of Dartmouth make the attempt ? 

It is our simple desire, in this year of centennial celebration, to offer to 
our Alma Mater the following Sketch as a contribution, — a centenary 
gift, — ^from the Class of 1827, — towards a work which seems to be now of 
imperative obligation; as a more minute description of one of the important 
periods of her history than has ever before been given,— perhaps a more 
minute description than has ever been given of any other four years of that 
history. It is offered with regret that the prosperous present of the Col- 
lege, with its enlarged numbers, appliances, and benefactions, its three addi- 
tional Departments, and its able Boards of administration and instruction, 
lies so entirely beyond the range which our theme permits. It is of a past 
already becoming remote, that we are to speak ; and far more of the dead, 
than of the living. 

As the Memorial from which this is reprinted was prepared for the use 
of the Class, the first person plural is freely used in it ; and the author of this 
part speaks of himself as "the Editor," from his relation to the whole work. 
The statements which are here made are based, for the most part, (fa au^ 
THENTic RECORDS. In unimportant jjarticulars, where it was necessary to 
trust recollection, it would be truly wonderful, after the lapse of so many 
year-j, if slight inaccuracies, even with the most careful painstaking, had been 
entirely escaped. The writer renders his hearty thanks to all who have con- 
tributed to confirm, to correct, and to supplement his own memory ; and, 
beyond the limits of his own Class, he is under especial obligation to the 
Rev. Dr. Chapman, who has so liberally permitted extracts from his work, 
and to two friends, whose College life was nearly synchronous with his own. 
Rev. Allen Gannett of the Class of 1826, and Rev. John A. Vinton of 
the Class of 1828. ^ 

He trusts that pardon will be granted for a change in the name of the 
Col ege, in a quotation, on the second page, from a Poem read by the Rev. 
Dr. Gilman, of Charleston, at a Class Meeting forty-one years after gradu- 
ation. 

In writing the last lines of this prefatory note, and affixing the date, h^e is 
reminded that this was the very day of the year on which, a hundred years 
ago, the Charter of the College was signed. The College settlement among 
the lofty pines on the Plain of Hanover (so called in compliment to the 
reigning monarch) was not made till the August following; so that the 
Centennial Year of the College, commencing in 1869, includes a still larger 
part of 1870. 

Salem, Mass., December 13, 1869. 



MEMORIAL OF COLLEGE LIFE. 



The period during which the Class of 1827 was in College, is 
certainly worthy'- of a portraiture. It was a period intermediate 
between the deep depression of the material interests of the College 
in the time of the great controversy, and the higher prosperity of 
more recent times. The College was still very poor in outward 
wealth ; having, like the Roman matron, no jewels but her sons- 
A great amount of excellent work was done with a very small expen- 
diture. The College Faculty consisted of tew men, and these were 
scantily paid. A Professor labored diligently upon the meagre 
salary of seven hundred dollars a year, with a perquisite in the use 
of land, estimated at the annual value of twenty-live dollars. The 
work of a Tutor was still more abundant, and his salary was about 
half as large. 

The College buildings were of wood ; and consisted of a small 
Chapel, and of a three-story building, commonly called the " Col- 
lege," containing thirty-six rooms, of which, only about three- 
fourths were open to the occupation of the students. A large 
majority of the students, therefore, from necessity, — and a necessity 
by no means without its benefits, — sought rooms wherever they could 
find them, throughout the village. In our own Class, there was not 
an average of five members a year, out of an attendance of forty, 
occupying '' College " rooms. There was, therefore, very much 
less of " barrack life," than is usual in our Colleges. 

The College Library was very small, and had been so collected 
that it contained few books which either the instructors or the 
students wished to read. The chief dependence of the latter for 
readiug was upon the Society Libraries, in which they took so 
much pride, and to the increase of which they contributed with so 
great liberality in proportion to their means. The Philosophic 
Apparatus was small and inexpensive. For Chemical experiments 
the entire dependence was upon the Medical Department. There 



6 Memorial of the 

was no Cabinet either of Mineralogy or of ]S"atural Histor3\ The 
mineralogical collection gathered by one of our own classmates 
was, perhaps, the largest in Hanover. 

Such were then the material and outward resources of the 
College. And, in correspondence, the personal means of the 
students were very moderate. Most of them defrayed their 
expenses in part by their own exertions, chiefly by school-teaching. 
These exertions taught them to spend frugally what they had 
gained so laboriously, and to appreciate highly privileges purchased 
with so much effort. There was among them great plainness 
of dress and furniture, and great freedom from all the forms of 
expensive amusement and dissipation. An average age higher 
than was usual in our Colleges cooperated in producing maturity 
of judgment and manliness of character. There was a strong 
public sentiment among the students, in favor of good order, 
studiousness, virtue, and piety. This sentiment, even if did not 
actuate every individual, so governed the College in general, that 
the frequent and minute exercise of authority became needless. 
The wise forbearance of this added again to the manliness, sense of 
honor, and good principle of the students. Nor should the healthy 
tone of the surrounding community be forgotten. 

The sons and friends of the College, therefore, will be slow to 
admit that, even in this period of material depression, she was 
really poor. But her wealth consisted, not in a long list of rents 
and dividends, but in the ability, attainments, energy, aspirations, 
and zeal of her instructors and students; in their mutual good- will, 
respect, and courtesy ; in the harmony with which they cooperated 
for the advancement of the Institution, and the accomplishment of 
the great ends for which it had been founded ; in the strong sense 
of religious obligation that prevailed ; and in the blessing of God 
resting upon all. 



A. ADMISSION TO COLLEGE. 

Some of the Class of 1827 were admitted on Tuesday, August 19, 
1823, the day before Commencement ; but more at the close of the 
vacation following. The studies in which they were examined for 
admission appear in the following statement of conditions, from 
the annual Catalogue for 1822 : 



Class of 1827. 7 

" Every candidate for admission into this College must produce 
a certificate, to the satisfaction of the Immediate Government, that 
he sustains a good moral character. 

" For admission into the Freshman Class it is required, that the 
candidate be well versed in the Grammar of the English, Latin, 
and Greek Languages, in Yirgil, Cicero's Select Orations, Sallust, 
the Greek Testament, Dalzel's Collectanea Graeca Minora, Latin 
and Greek Prosody. Arithmetick, and Ancient and Modern 
Geography ; and that he be able accurately to translate English 
into Latin." 

It may not be without interest to see where the Class chiefly 
obtained the preparation to meet this examination, and how its 
members were associated before entering College. For this end, 
the following list of the Academies, &c., from which they entered 
College, has been compiled from the preceding sketches. It will 
be seen that nearly half the Class entered from three Academies. 

Bradford Academy, Mass. : Batchelder, Ober. 

Fryeburg Academy, Me.: Stark, Thomson. 

Haverhill Academy, K. H.: Bartlett, Clark. 

Kimball Union Academy, Plainfield (Meriden), IS". H.: 
Blaisdell, Marsh, Wheeler. 

Moor's School, Hanover, N. H. : Jewett. Olcott, Tenney. 

Pembroke Academy, N. H.: Hutchins, Kittredge, Parker, 
Pearson, Pillsbury. 

Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass, : Alvord, Chase, S. 
Hopkins, Jenney, Lancaster, Patten, Eoundey, Woods. 

Phillips Exeter Academy, IST. H. : Bellows, Cleveland, 
Crosby, Greenleaf, Haskell, Paine, Saftbrd, Sanborn, Shepherd. 

Thetford Academy, Yt. : Baldwin, Converse, C. Hopkins. 

Other Schools and Private Teachers : Biglow, Boyden, 
Button, Eastman, Fowler, French, Hale, Jennison, Little, Eix, 
Smith, Torrey, Worcester. 

The first assembling of the Class was for morning prayers, on 
Thursday, September 18, 1823, the first day of the Fall Term, in 
that old Chapel, which excited our wonder as a whispering gallery, 
and a part of which still survives for a less noble use than befits its 
former dignity. Our first recitation was Livy's Preface, read with 
Tutor Perley the next morning before breakfast ; and studied by 
one of the Class, at least, the evening before, at a table extem- 
porized by putting one trunk on the top of another, and by a light 
struck from flint and steel. The convenience of friction matches 
was then unknown. 



8 Memoeial of the 

Our Recitation Room, the first year, was No. 8 in the lower story 
of the "College," which was also occupied as his special room by one 
of the members of the Class. According to the custom of the time, 
it was supplied, at the expense of the Class, with plain, movable 
furniture. This consisted of a chair and table for the Instructor, 
a small blackboard in one corner, a stove, and, on two sides of the 
room, a double row of long, unpainted pine benches, which had 
served some previous Class. The second year, we recited in ]N^o. 5, 
of the same story ; the third year in No. 11 ; and the fourth year, 
in No. 2. How many pleasant memories cling about these rooms' 
devoid as they were of attractions to the eye ! 



B. COLLEGE COURSE. 

The week day exercises appointed for the Class during the 
first three years were the following : 

1. Prayers in the Chapel every morning about five o'clock, or, if 
later, as early as the President could well see to read in the Bible* 
There was no provision for lighting artificially either the Chapel or 
the recitation rooms. Hence, the time of prayers varied with the 
season of the year. 

2. A Recitation during the hour between prayers and breakfast, 
every morning except on Monday. 

3. A Recitation at 11, A. M., every day. The half-hour between 
this recitation and dinner was the favorite time for the game of 
football on the College green, the great test of athletic prowess, — 
Sophomores and Seniors against Freshmen and Juniors. How 
very different the rank of men here from that which they held a 
few minutes before in the recitation room! 

4. A Recitation or Rhetorical Exercise at 3 or 4, P. M. ; except 
Saturday afternoon, and also Wednesday afternoon, when there 
was Declamation of the four Classes in turn, before the whole 
College, in the Chapel. The Rhetorical Exercises in the Class were 
usually, for each member, a Declamation every four weeks, and a 
Composition as often. 

5. Evening Prayers, about six o'clock, or, if earlier, as late as 
the President could well see to read the Scripture Lesson, and the 
Handel Society to sing the evening Hymn (the exercises in 
the morning consisting only of the Invocation, Reading from the 



Class of 1827. 9 

Scriptures, and Prayer). We shall not forget the fervent prayers 
of the pious and fatherly President Tyler, in the otherwise 
unwarmed Chapel, on the hard seats of which we used on frosty 
mornings to draw so close about us the large plaid cloaks which 
were then commonly worn. On Tuesday evening, a Dissertation 
by one of the Seniors followed the religious exercises. 

Daring Senior year, the Kecitations were fewer in number, but 
the Rhetorical work was increased. 

The hard-working College bell, which summoned us to these 
regular exercises, to the Lectures which were more sparingly 
substituted or added, to study hours, to our meals, and, last of all, 
at nine o'clock in the evening, to our rooms for the night, — how its 
familiar tones still linger in our ears! There Avas then no College 
clock, and the bellman's watch was the sovereign standard of time 
both for the College and the village. This trusty official, upon 
whom so much depended, was always appointed from the Junior 
Class ; and occupied a room in the upper story of the "College," 
No. 10, into the premises of which the bell-rope came down. An 
alarm-clock usuall}^ kept him from oversleeping. 

For prayers, the bell tolled six minutes, commencing in the 
morning, when earliest, as nearly as memory will now state the 
time, at five o'clock : and in the evening, when latest, at such a time 
that prayers should close by six o'clock, or shortly after. Supper 
immediately followed evening prayers ; and good housewives 
carefully watched for the first egress from the Chapel, that they 
might then set on their warm dishes, and be ready to welcome 
impatient appetites. Soon after our time, the more merciful rule 
prevailed, that the first bell (fifteen or twenty minutes before the 
tolling) should never be rung earlier than five o'clock ; and the 
custom also sprang up ot ringing, instead of tolling, during the last 
minute of the second bell, to warn those who were lingering, that 
the time had almost expired. The merry tinkle of this terminal 
ring, when first heard, seemed to some irreverent. 

It is a deep problem in philosophj^, how our ears learned to 
distinguish so accurately, even in sleep, the tones of the first and 
second bells. Some of us, for weeks or even months together, slept 
uniformly through the noisy ringing of the first bell ; but were 
waked at once by the gentler strokes of the second, sprang out of 
bed. threw on our clothes, caught up our books, and, though we 
might have to cross the common, were in our chapel seats before 
the six minutes had expired. Those who roomed near could spend 



10 Memorial of the 

part of the six minutes in bed. The marvels of our rapid toilet 
under the stimulus of the College bell, are scarce credible, even 
upon the proof of actual and multiplied experience. As we 
hastened to morning prayers, we were often cheered by the sun just 
peering over the eastern hills, and were sometimes braced by one 
of the fogs with which the Connecticut loved to freshen the 
autumnal air and give promise of a fine day. 

On Sunday, the students were required to attend Morning and 
Evening Prayers in the Chapel, and two services in the College 
and Village Church, the latter conducted regularly by the Phillips 
Professor of Theology. The ill health of the incumbent who had 
long held this office, and the consequent change of his labors, gave 
the Class an admirable Instructor for the Senior year. Our Class 
was the first which he taught after his transfer to his new 
Professorship, — commencing with us, indeed, the term before ; and, 
coming to us in the full maturity of his strong and varied powers, 
and with a mind g4owing with the enthusiasm of a new work, he 
awakened in the Class a corresponding enthusiasm, both for the 
subjects which he presented, and for himself as an instructor. His 
manner as a teacher is well described by Professor Long, of the 
next Class, in a commemorative discourse: — " He exhibited original 
views of the subjects under discussion, he pre^^ented in new forms 
the views of the text-bo(j)k, he reasoned, he enlivened the exercise 
with illustration and wit." Professor Shurtleff out-lived most 
of our teachers ; and, in his advanced age, never lost his special 
interest in "his first Senior Class." 

The change above mentioned also gave to us, for a time, the able 
and eloquent preaching of the President, an eminent theologian of 
the 'New England School of Calvinistic divines. It prevented, 
however, his becoming a teacher of the Class, excejjt through 
his public religious exercises, and his private interviews with 
individuals. Indeed, he had shared his work in the j)receding Class 
with Professor Shurtleff. 

The seats in the Church which were occupied by the Class daring 
the first year were in the usual Freshmen pews in the southeast 
corner below. These, like the other pews in the Church at that 
time, were nearly square ; and on three sides, had seats, which 
were raised during prayer to accommodate the congregation 
then standing, but at the close came down with a clatter, at first 
scattering, then choral, that responded with an emphatic but very 
unseemly amen. At the request of the Class, the long seats in the 



Class of 1827. 11 

Avest gallery, now the resort of beauty at Commencement, were 
prepared for their occupancy, and were retained by them during 
the remainder of their course. 

An account was kept of absence from recitation, usually by the 
Teacher ; and of absence from Chapel and Church, by a monitor 
appointed from the Chiss. To avoid petty, often insincere, excuses, 
and to guard the manliness and honor of the students, the following 
peculiar system had been adopted. Leave of absence was given 
beforehand, for proper cause. But after an occasional absence, no 
excuse was asked for or admitted ; still no penalty was inflicted, 
beyond loss of reputation and good conscience, unless at the close 
of a term, the absences from recitation had exceeded one a week, 
or those reported by the monitor, two a Aveek. Then a fine was 
imposed. One of the Class, at least, commenced his College course 
by keeping an account of his absences, that he might not indulge 
himself beyond the limit of toleration ; but soon adopted the 
principle, as not only more satisfactory but easier, of never being 
absent except from absolute necessity. The right, in case of 
absence, to call a student to a private recitation, was claimed by 
the Facult}'- ; but was never enforced in the Class, it is believed, 
except upon a single occasion ; and then, from the novelty of the 
demand, a protest arose. 

The principal Instructors of the Class were Tutor Perley 
during the first year ; Tutors Perley and Moore (the latter 
in Mathematics), the second year ; Professors Adams and 
Chamberlain, the third year ; Professor Shurtleff, the fourth 
year ; and Professor Haddock, in the Ehetorical Department, 
through the four years. 

There were three vacations in each year : from Commence- 
ment, which was on the last Wednesday but one in August, four 
weeks ; from the first Monday in January, seven weeks ; and from 
the Thursday before the last Wednesday in May, two and a half 
weeks. Most of the students were permitted to extend the winter 
vacation to three months, sometimes even more, for the purpose of 
teaching school and thus obtaining the means of defraying in part 
their college expenses. But, important as this pecuniary advantage 
was, a far higher benefit accrued in the effect upon intellect and 
character, of the winter's efl:brt and responsibility in teaching and 
governing. He who left in the fall a boy, often returned in the 
spring a man, with a new dignity of character, a new view of the 
relations of pupils and teachers, and a new sense of the objects of 



12 Memorial OF the 

study, the value of good conduct, and the necessity of law. Some 
taught Singing Schools, in addition to other schools, or in place of 
them. 

The Classes were, of course, reduced to mere handfuls, and 
college life to a low ebb, at the close of the Fall Term. There 
were scarce feet enough to keep the snow-paths well trodden. 

The Seniors had, besides, a special vacation of nearly six weeks 
before Commencement. 

When vacation came, there were then no railroads to convej'' us 
in ease and comfort to our homes. Happy was he whose home lay 
near the route of some stage-coach. Oh, how these coaches were 
crowded and covered with students, and piled up with trunks, at 
the beginning and end of terms ; and what severe journeys we often 
had, especially through the snow-drifts of winter, and in the spring 
when the deep frost was coming out of the ground ! Those of 
us who came towards Concord and Boston, starting in the morning 
and making our way slowly over the hills, reached Concord at the 
end of the first day's journey, and Boston at the end of the second* 
But we knew then no better way of travelling, we were going 
/lome, we were young, and what merry- companies we were, with 
joke and song, and the driver's horn ! 

There were two public oral examinations, a day for each class, 
the one in March, and the other at the close of the college year. 

At the conclusion of long and laborious departments of study, 
the Class made no discourteous parade of burying or burning 
text-books ; but, on one occasion, it will be remembered, they 
remained for a few minutes, after the withdrawal of the Professor 
from the recitation room, and indulged, without speech-making, in a 
hearty clapping of hands and books. 

Even now, after the lapse of more than forty years, it will be 
with vai-ying emotions that we shall reperuse what we so often 
pored over, the Course of Study prescribed for the Class in the 
Annual Catalogues ; though we have now certainl}'- reached the 
period in which, even with respect to the least favorite studies, the 
words of the Trojan leader should apply, Hcec olmi meminisse 
juvahit. 

Course of Study. 

" Freshmen. — 1. Titus Livius, Lib. v. priores.— 2. Adam's 
Koman Antiquities. — 3. Dalzel's Collectanea Graeca Majora : 
Herodotus; Xenoph. Cyrop. and Anab.; ^lianus ; Polysenus ; 
Theophrastus ; Homer ; Hesiod. — 4. Q. Horatius. — 5. Walker's 



Class of 1827. 13 

Rhetorical Grammar. — 6. Arithmetick reviewed [Webber's 
Mathematics]. — 7. Algebra. — Exercises in Reading, Declamation, 
T'ranslation, and English Composition, through the year.* 

" SOPHOMOHES. — 3. Continued: Thucyd.; Demosth. ; Lysias ; 
Xenoph. Phil.; Isocr. ; Dionys. ; Plato. — 8. Cicero de Oratore. — 
9. Euclid's Elements of G-eometryf, 6 Books.— 10. Ty tier's 
Elements of General History. — 11. Excerpta Latina. — 12. Plane 
Trigonometry. — 13. Mensuration of Superficies and Solids. — 14. 
Guaging. — 15. Mensuration of Heights and Distances. — 16. 
Surveying. — 17. Navigation. — 18. Blair's Lectures on Rhetorick 
and Belles Lettres, 2 vols. — 19. Logick [Hedge's]. — Composition 
and Declamation. 

" JuxiOKS. — 3. Continued: Long, and Arist.; Eurip. Med. ; (Ed. 
Tyr. — 20. Taciti Historia. — 21. Conick Sections, and Spherick 
Geometry and Trigonometry. — 22. Chemistry. — 23. I^atural 
Philosophy and Astronomy [Enfield's]. — 24. Paley's Natural 
Theology. — 25. Paley's Moral and Political Philosophy. — Com- 
position and Declamation. 

" Seniors. — 26. Locke's Essay. — 27. Edwards on the Will. — 
28. Butler's Analogy. — 29. Natural and Political Law.— 30. 
Paley's Evidences of Christianity. — 31. Cicero de Otficiis. — 32. 
Greek Testament reviewed. — 33. Stewart's Philosophy, 2 vols. — 34. 
Federalist. — Dissertations, Forensick Disputes, and Declamations. 

" Private Instruction is permitted in the French and other Modern 
Languages. 

" Lectuees [by each Professor of the Academical Depart- 
ment]." 

The Spring Term of our third year closed Wednesday, May 24, 
1826, with the Junior Exhibition, or Quarter-Day, as it was 
often called. Our Senior Exhibition occurred Wednesday, 
November 8, 1826. The Sophomore Exhibition was wisely dis- 
continued just before our time (last held in May, 1823), as it threw 



*A very pleasant recreation in the latter part of Freshman year, was the Torchlight 
Procession in which the Class marched about the plain, singing the Carmen Seculare 
of Horace to an original or adapted tune, and stopping before the house of each 
College Officer to pay the compliment of a stanza ; while the words of command 
were all given in Latin, such as a Roman Pontiff might be supposed to have used, 
closing with ^'^ Nunc faces exstinguiteJ' Later in the season, came the "Cow- 
Driving," or the keeping of the village cows off the College Common for a tew weeks 
before Commencement, which was then regarded as the duty of the Freshmen, but 
which beca.me needless long since, from the erection of a fence around the common. 
The excitements amid which the year closed, were most happily allayed and reversed 
the next year. The enthusiasm for students' rights was succeeded by the enthusiasm 
of admiring affection. 

tWe accounted ourselves to have made a good start in Geometry, when we were 
well over the sharp ridge of the " Pons Asinorum," an Initiatory trial which students 
are now spared. 



14 Memorial of the 

so heavy, and often odious, a responsibility upon a single youn^ 
teacher, the Sophomore Tutor. These three exhibitions, with 
Commencement, formerly marked the four divisions of the year, 
and hence were called " Quarter days." 

The great excitement which usuallj' attended the first assign- 
ment of " parts " for an Exhibition, — the only way in which the 
College Instructors formerly marked distinctions of scholarship, — 
was mainly repressed, in the case of our own Class, by the more 
intense excitement of the great religious " revival " which was then 
prevaihng in the College and village. To most of the Class, the 
distinctions of earth seemed the most insignificant trifles, in 
comparison with the anticipated distinctions of an eternal state. 
Among the most vivid recollections of those who were then 
members of College, must be the memories of this revival. But 
this is not the place to dwell either upon its scenes or its results, — 
its benefits to many, and the transient character of its influences 
upon others. The Class even declined the privilege, kindly accorded 
to it by the Faculty, of making the first determination of rank 
among its members by its own vote, — a iDrivilege accepted by the 
Classes next before and next after ours. 

The EXPENSES of residence at College in that time of economy, 
simplicity, and specie payments, were so very moderate that the 
present generation may have diflSculty in believing the tale. Of 
course, there were personal expenses which varied with the 
resources and habits of individuals ; but the regular and essential 
expenses of College residence were thus stated in the Catalogue lor 
1823 :— 

'^ Tuition. $26 ; Ordinary Incidentals, $2.40 : Library. $2 ; Eoom 
Rent, in College or in a private house, — average, $6 ; Board, from 
$1 to $1.75 per week, — average for 38 weeks, $52.25 ; Wood, lights, 
&c., $10.— Per year, $98.65.— Room Rent, Wood, and Lights are 
estimated on the supposition that two students occupy a chamber."'' 

In the Catalogues of 1824-26, the total was advanced to $101.87. 
In the Junior year a fee of $2 was also added, and in the Senior 
year a fee of $4, for the privilege of attending the Chemical and 
Anatomical Lectures of the Medical Professors. Of these Lectures, 
the Anatomical were, as they should have been, quite strictly 
professional ; and hence, notwithstanding the eminence and great 
ability of Professor Mussey, it was only on special occasions that 
they attracted a large attendance from the College proper. The 
Chemical Lectures which we heard from the accomplished Professor 
Dana, whose early death Science mourned, were made very 



Class of 1827. 15 

ipteresling as well as instructive to the general stmlent, and 
attracted lady listeners to grace the front, row. 

The custom then was for each student, either alone or with a 
companion, to engage a room for a year ; to furnish it with such 
cheap furniture as he had brought from home or purchased 
on college ground (mostly the latter, furniture and text-books 
descending from chiss to class) ; and then to occupy it and take the 
care of it as an independent house-keeper, — engaging board where 
he might please as a separate matter. These rooms were often 
changed ; and, to aid the memory in keeping and distinguishing the 
various localities where we visited each other, and to show how the 
members of the Class were locally related, both at College and at 
their homes, a list follows, presenting the names, kesidexces, and 
ROOMS of 'the Class, as published in the Annual Catalogues of 
1823,-4,-5, and -6. 

It will be understood that the towns in this list are in JUsew 
Hampshire, unless otherwise stated ; and that the first room 
mentioned, unless the number of the year precedes, is that stated 
in 1823 ; the second, in 1824* ; the third, in 1825 ; and the fourth, in 
1820. L. S., M. S., and U. S. denote Lower, Middle, and Upper 
Stories in '' College" (now '-Dartmouth Hall") ; N. D., M. D., and 
S. D., ISTorth, Middle, and South Divisions in that very useful 
building called the "Tontine"; L. S. B. H., and U. S. B. H., Lower 
and Upper Stories in " Brown Hall " (the building called " Rowley 
Hall" in the Catalogues of 1823 and 1824, and which did good 
service during the j^ears in which the proper College buildings 
were in possession of the " University," — now removed from its 
site near those buildings, and converted into a private residence. 

The small capitals S and U, atfixed in the list, distinguish the 
members of the two great College Societies, the Social Fkiends 
and the United Frateknity, — venerable associations which date 
from the years 1783 and 1786, and which, through their literary 
exercises and their valuable libraries, have been of such inestimable 
service to the Collesfe generallv. and to successive generations 
of students. If, from any cause, the old ardor of affection, the 
enthusiasm of loyalty, towards these Societies has declined, it is 
well worth great effort for its revival. 

*The Catalogue for this year (our Sophomore year), according to the custom theu 
prevailing, was published by the Class at its own expense, and distributed without 
price to the members ol the other Classe?. Special effort was made and expense 
incurred, to give to this annual representative ot the College a better dress than it 
had ever before worn. 



16 Memorial of the 

By a regulation then just established to check " fishing for 
Freshmen," — that piscatory sport not recognized by Izaak 
Walton, — the members of the Class, on entering College, were 
assigned, in alphabetical order, alternately to these two Societies ; 
but with the privilege of joining either Society at pleasure after a 
year's delay. This privilege was made so tempting by the freer 
use of books and kind attentions during the interval, that many 
availed themselves of it, and thus the intent of the assignment (of 
very questionable utility at best) was entirely thwarted. This led 
to the still more unwise policy afterwards adopted, of taking 
away all liberty of choice between the Societies, and making the 
assignment unconditional. 

The desire of these Societies to secure the favor of the new 
members of College was undoubtedly one reason why the " hazing 
of Freshmen " was unknown at Dartmouth in our day. We simply 
heard of it as a vile practice prevailing in some less civilized 
institutions. The chief College Societies of our time, besides these, 
were the Theological Society, the Society of Inquiry respecting 
Missions, the Handel Society, which sang in the Chapel and 
Church, the Adelphian Society, which was devoted to extem- 
poraneous speakinp;, and the Phi Beta Kappa Society, which then 
received members in the latter part of their Junior Year. The 
Society Hall, where these Societies usually met on different evenings 
of the week immediately after tea, was in the lower storj of the 
" College," nearly corresponding in situation to what is now the 
southeast quarter of the Chapel. The Philosophical Lecture and 
Apparatus Boom was situated west of this, with an entry 
intervening. 

The Societies commonly met as follows : — Theological, Monday ; 
Fraternity, Tuesday ; Social Friends, Wednesday ; Adelphian and 
Phi Beta Kappa, Thursday ; Handel, Friday. Saturday evening 
remained for a religious meeting in the village, conducted by the 
students, and dating back to the great revival in 1815 ; while the 
members of the Faculty took charge of a religious conference or 
lecture on Sunday evening. There was then no vestry upon the 
Plain ; and these religious meetings were usually held in the 
Academy or School House, which have both given place to more 
modern structures ; but sometimes in the College Chapel, or, if a 
large attendance was expected, in the Church. 

Another Society having the same object with the Adelphian, but 
less restricted in the number of its members, originated in our 



Class of 1827. 17 

Class, and received the name of the Phi Sigma, the initials of 
two Greek words signifying an Assembly of Debaters. What 
would College Societies do without the Greek Alphabet ? During 
our Senior year, similar associations in the lower Classes united 
with this, and thus formed a general College Society, having 
four branches. The next year, this Society had an Anniversary 
Oration at Commencement, delivered by Clement Long, afterwards 
Professor in the College. The benefits conferred by the Adelphian 
and Phi Sigma Societies were subsequently sought through other 
organizations ; and these were discontinued. We had also a 
mirthful exercise for the cultivation of debate and of acquaintance 
with the forms of law, in our Sophomore Courts. By the common 
law prevailing in these, it will be remembered, any act of gallantry 
to a young lady was among the most heinous of ofiences, con- 
stituting the crime of manslaughter. 

The Society meeting for the evening over, the next call was to 
the morning lesson, unless this had been previously prepared. Our 
early morning work was a great check upon evening indolence, dis- 
sipation, novel-reading, and unreasonable hours, — though we would 
by no means claim that the College was wholly free from these ; 
and it also gave us a larger share of the best part of the day for 
study. 

But we proceed to our list. 

IS'ame and Residence. — Room. 

Alvord, .Tames C, (rreenfield, Ms. — Miss Chapman's; Mr. Wright's; 

Mrs. Utley's ; 12 M. S.— S. 
Baldwin, Benjamin G., Bradford, Ft, — Mr. Lon<r"s*; Dr. Gates'i-f ; 

8L. S. B. il.: Do.— s. 
Bartlett, Levi, Haverhill— 15 N. D. ; H U. S. ; 2 U. S.; Do.— s. 

*Good Deacon Long, who made for our Classmate Cleveland, nearly half a century 
ago, the revolving hexagonal table, on which this is written His house, the pleasant 
home of so many students, is now the residence of our Classmate Blaisdell, so often 
referred to in the record of our Class Meetings. 

Deacon Long and Mrs. Long (no less gratefully remembered by many students, — a 
sister of Mr. Clement, who had so much charge of the College buildings) were the 
parents of Dr. Samuel Long, of the Class of 1824, '• the beloved physician " of 
Plymouth, as Dr. Chapman terms liim; and of Eev. Clement Long, D. D., LL.D., of 
ihe Class of 1828, who for seven years occupied with so much ability the chair of 
Intellectual Philosopliy and Political Economy in the College. 

tThe Doctor was said to have won a w^ager by thrusting his leg for a time into 
boiling water, and then immediately restoring it by the application of a liniment 
which he had highly extolled. The leg was wooden: but not so, as some of the Class 
well remember, the Doctor's wits. 
3 



18 Memorial of the 

Batchelder, John, Wendell. --^Vrof. Shurtleff's [^'Lyceum"*]; 9 

S. D. ; 14 S. D.; Mrs. Davis^s.— u. 
Bellows, Thomas, FKa/^poZe.— 1824, Mrs. Brown'sf ; Do ; Do.— U. 
Biolovv, Abner P., Brookjielcl, F«.— 1825, 1 U. S. B. H. : Do.— u. 
Blaisdell, Daniel, Canaan.— 11 N. D. ; Gen. Poole's: 2 U. S. B. H.; 

8 U. S. B. H.— s. 
Boyden, William, JDummerston. Vt. — Mr. Hutchinson's; 1 U. S.; 

IIM. S.;Do.— s. 
Chase, James M., Cornish. — 15 S. D.; Capt. Carpenter's ; Miss 

Chapman's ; Do. — s. 
Clark, Peter, Orford.—Mv. Mitchell's; Gen. Poole's ; 10 TJ. S.— U. 
Cleveland, Charles D., Charlestown, Ms., 1824: Boston, Ms.— 14: 
■ :N'. D. ; Prof. Oliver's ; Do.; Gen. Poole's.J— s. 
Converse, John K, Lime. — 9 M. D.; Dr. Gates's; 1 U. S. — s. 
Crosby, Alpheus, Gilmanton. — Prof. Shurtlefi''s ['' Lyceum "] ; 

Prof. Shurtlefl's ; Do ; Do.§— u. 

*A building of one story and two rooms, north of Prof. Shurtleff's house; since 
removed towards the river, and converted into a dwelling-house. 

jThe greatly esteemed widow of the lamented President Brown, and the mother of 
the Rev. Dr. Samuel G. Brown, Professor for thirteen years in Dartmouth College, 
and now President of Hamilton College, N. Y. The Editor is under great obligation 
to the occupant of this room, for hospitably sharing it with him during the first term 
of this year, and for far higher benefits received in the College course. 

JThis pleasant room, where our lamented Classmate studied and wrote during 
his Senior year, commencing even iu . College his useful and successful career of 
authorship, was next occupied by Rev. George Howe, D. D., a graduate of Middle- 
bury College and of Andover Theological Seminary, who became Phillips Professor 
of Theology, and thus College preacher, a few months before our graduation. 
When he resigned this office, in 1830, to become Professor of Biblical Literature in 
the Theological Seminary at Columbia, S. C, the room fell to the Editor, and with it 
the table before mentioned. General Poole had then passed away ; of Mrs. Poole, 
one ot the loveliest of women, it is impossible to speak without expressing esteem 
and affection. 

This liouse, of which so many students have pleasant memories, and whicli covered 
the site of the present residence of Senator Patterson, was burnt down a fe'V years 
after. Some of the rooms designated " Gen. Poole'^" in the Catalogues of our period, 
were io a two story building of four rooms, opposite General Poole's house, and north 
of his store. This building, which was familiarly called " The Fort," was burnt down 
in the fall term of 1828; and the Editor was one of those who were burnt out. On 
the concentration of business at the south end of the plain, the store was changed 
to a dwelling-house, in which Mr. Haskell now resides. Directly south of this was 
the " Commons House," where in ancient times the ^/?na Mater nourished the bodies 
of her children, not always to their satisfaction. This building, having long outlived 
its usefulness and become a general offence, was taken down by a volunteer corps of 
students and others, during the year before our admission to College. 

§ riie Editor cannot refrain from, speaking, in terms of grateful and loving 
remembrance, of this happy home of his College life, and of the friends who made it 
so ; and, in like manner, of the highly privileged place which lie occupied during the 
same period (with another member of his Class) at the table of the venerated 
Professor Adams. It is very rare that one absent "from his fatlier'.s house is favored 
with two such homes. 



Class of 182T. 19 



[Dutton, Salmon F., Cavendish, Vt.—v.'] 

Driver, Joseph M., Salem, Ms* [In the Catalogue of 1825.] 

Eastman, Addison J., York, N. F.— 1825, 5 U. S. B. H.; Mrs. 

Holkins'. — s. 
Fowjer, Francis, Bangor, il/e.. — Mrs. Porter's [the honse familiarly 

called " The Acropolis," from its pecnliar architecture and its 

elevated position on the Colleg-e hill] ; Do. — u. 
French, Eli, Bummer ston, Vt.—Mi\ Hutchinson's ; 16 S. D.— s. 
Greenleaf, Alfred, W. JSeichiiry, Ms.—IQ S. D. ; 4 S. D. 
Hale. Thomas C, Boston, Ms.— 1824:, 4 S. D. ; Prof. Shurtleff's 

['^ Dycenm "] : IG S. D.— s. 
Haskeil, George, Wateiforcl, Jfe.— 16 S. D. ; Do.— s. 
Hopkins, Charles, Thetford, Vt. — Mrs. Porter's ; Do. ; Mrs. 

Brown's ; Gen. Poole's. — s. 
Hopkins, Samuel, Boston, Afs., 1825 Northampton, JV/s.— Mrs. 

Davis's ; Prof. Shnrtlelf's ; Mrs. Brown's ; Do.— s. 
Hutchins, Hamilton, Concord. — 15 JST. D. ; Gen. Poole's ; Do. ; 

Do. ;— 17. 
Jenison, 1825 Jennison. Edwinf, Waljoole. — 13 M. D.; Mr. Wright's; 

Mrs. Utley's : Mrs. Brown's. — s. 
Jennev, Elisha, Fairhaven, Ms. — 14 S. D. : Dr. Gates's ; Mrs. 

Gates's ; 7 U. S. B. H.— s. 
Jewett, Adam.s, Nev-hury, Vt, 1825 St. Johnshury, Vt., — 11 S. D. : 

Do ; Do ; Mr. Bridgman's. — s. 
Kittredge, Alfred, Salisbury. — 12 jST. D.; Gen. Poole's ; 3 U. S. 

B. H. ; Mrs. Burke's. — u. 
Lancaster, Cj'rus, Acworth. — 15 S. D. ; Do. ; Do. ; Do. — s. 
Little, Charles H., Boscawen. — 11 S. D. ; Mr. Wright's ; Mrs. 

Gates's ; Do. — u. 
fMarsh, Leonard, Hartford, Vt. — u] 
Ober, Albert R., Georgetown, D. C. — Mr. Kimball'sj: ; Mrs. 

Brown's. — s. 
Olcott, William, Hanover. — 1825, Mr. Olcott's ; Do.— s. 
Paine, George A., 1824 George, WilUamstown, Vt. — Miss Chap- 
man's ; Gen. Poole's ; Do; Do. — u. 

*JoSEPH Metcalf Driver, a son of Stephen and Ruth (Metcalf) Driver, was born 
in Salem, Mass., April 4, 1801. He was prepared for college at the Salem Latin 
School ; and entered Harvard in 182.3. He remained two years, and was then 
admitted to the Junior Class in Dartmouth. Instead, however, of joining the Class, 
he pursued the remaining studies of the College course at home ; and then Avent to 
Andover for theological study. He has been settled at Xorth Eeadiug, Mass., and 
other places, as a Baptist clergyman; and now resides at Hampton Falls, N. H. 
During the War, he was Chaplain of Columbian Hospital, Washington, D. C, about 
two years and a half; and two of his four sons served in the War. 

fin the Catalogue of 1823, " Edward" is printed for "Edwin," doubtless by mistake; 
as also, in the same, " Sandborn " for "Sanborn," and "Tenny" for " Tenney." 

J Among the marked persons in Hanover for many years, was Mr. Inciease 
Kimball. In the spirit of the old prophets, he had made a vow that he would never 
shave his beard till he had reconciled two persons, one of whom died not long after. 
The object thus becoming impossible, he doubted the continued obligation of Ins 
vow ; but still, in his great conscientiousness, he preferred to keep it, though the 



20 Memorial of the 



Parker, William, Dimbarton. — Mr. Kimball's ; 6 L. S. ; Do. ; 

Do.— s. 
Patten, Abel, Billerica, Ms. — 14 S. D. ; Do. ; Do. ; Do. — s. 
Pearson, Eliphalet, Warner, 1826 [Wate^ford] New York. — Mr. 

Long's ; Do. ; Do. ; Do. — s. 
Pillsbury, David, Candia.—12 'N. D. ; Mrs. Porter's ; Mr. 

Bridgman's ; Mr. Kent's.— u. 
Rix, Lyman L., Eoyalton, Vt.—l M. S. : 12 S. D. ; 11 S. D. ; 10 

S. D.— s. 
Roundy, 1825 Roundey, John W., Marhlehead, Jfs.— 1824, Mr. 

Long's ; Do. — u. 
Salibid, Charles G., Exeter. — 13 S. D. ; Do. ; Do. ; Do. — s. 
ISanborn, John J,, Epsom. — Prof. Shurtleti"s [" Lyceum "j ; Do. — U. 
Shepard, Forrest, Boscawen. — 8 L. S. ; Prof. iShurtlefi''s , Philo- 
logical Library ; Gen. Poole's. — s 
Smith, Samuel, 1825 Samuel S., 1826 Samuel, Francestown. — Mrs. 

Davis's ; Do. ; 12 U. S.; 12 M. S.— s. 
Stark, Stephen, Conway. — Mrs. Davis's ; Do.; Do.; Do. — u. 
Tenney, Sewall, Chester.— I'd S. D. ; Mr. Wright's ; 10 U. S. ; 

Mrs. Gates's. — s. 
Thompson, Jonathan E,., Conway. — Mrs. Davis's ; Do. ; Do. 

Do.— u. 
Torrey, Erastus C, Windsor, Ft— 1824, Gen. Poole's ; Do 

Do. ;— u. 
Wheoler, D. Everett, Orford. — Miss Chapman's ; Prof. Oliver's 

2 U. S. B. H. ; Do.— s. ^ 
[Woods, Leonard, Jr., Andover, Ms. — Mrs. Holkins.] 
Worcester, Jonathan P., Salem, Ifs.— 1824, 15 S. D. ; 1 U. S. ; Mrs. 

Gates's. — s. 
1823, Ejreshmen, 39 ; 1824, Sophomores, 44 ; 1825, Junior 

SoPHiSTERS, 42 ; 1826, Senior Sophisters, 38. — The whole 
number of students in the four College Classes is thus stated : 
in 1823, 141 ; in 1824, 150 ; in 1825, 174 ; in 1826, 165. 

The Presidents of t!ie United Fraternity, elected from the Class 
of 1827, were Paine and Pillsbury ; and the Librarian, Little. 
The Presidents of the Social Friends were Cleveland, Alvord, 
and Smith ; and the Librarians, Patten and Cleveland. 
Where are they all now ? 

The room designated, in the preceding list, as the " Philological 

long, flowing beard, which would now pass unnoticed, then subjected him to both 
ridicule and annoyance. Deeply religious, he had drunk in so thoroughly the spirit 
of the Jewish dispensation, that he accepted the obligation to abstain from swine's 
flesh, and endeavored to impress this upon others, both In conversation and in the 
public meeting. Applying to himself the command in Hosea, i. 4, he gave to a new- 
born son a singular name, as a prophetic token of coming judgments. The memory 
of this meek, gentle man, — yet a John Brown in doing what he deemed right without 
regard to the opinion of others, — deserves to be cherished with honor. 



Glass of 1827. 21 

Library," deserves further mention, from its connection with the 
history of the Class, and of scholarship in the College. It was "No. 
2 in the middle story of the "• College," the room next north of the 
Social Friends' Library (kept at that time in a small room which 
had been rescued from the entry). This room vvas furnished and. 
opened by the members of the Class belonging to the Society of 
Social Friends, as a Reference Room for Classical Study. It was 
so maintained during their course of classical recitations, and wa^ 
then absorbed by the Social Friends' Library. A member of the 
Class belonging to this Society thus writes, in answer to an inquiry: 

'' I wish I could tell you all about that Philological Room ; but I 
cannot. Its histor}^ ought to have been written. It was one of the 
best oi-ganizations that ever existed in the College. The object was 
to procure the best aids to a critical study of the Gre^k and Latin 
Classics. For this the members taxed themselves to the utmost of 
their means. The books were procured in the early part of our 
Sophomore 3^ear, and placed in the Room in the Spring Term. The 
result was that, as soon as the Room was opened, it was largely 
resorted to, and a new impetus given to our studies. I have always 
attributed to that Room the superior scholarship of some of our 
own men, as well as of the Class, or Classes, immediately succeeding 
us. It is true the ))(K)ks were soon removed from the room where 
they had been first collected, and placed upon the shelves of the 
Social Friends' Library ; but, even then, their influence was by no 
means lost." 

As our Classmate Cleveland is, alas! no longer with us, there can 
be no impropriety in speaking of his great interest, and of the very 
prominent part which he took, in the establishment of this Room* 
and in the more extensive improvements which soon resulted. 

During the first years of our course, the Library of the United 
Fraternity occupied a place in the north entry of the " College," 
corresponding to that of the Social Friends' Library in the south 
entry. These Libraries were then open only on Wednesdays and 
Saturdays, from 1 to 2, P. M., for the delivery and return of 
books ; and the students at these times gathered round the barred 
entrances, to be waited on in turn ])y the Librarians and their 
assistants. The rooms were so small, that only three or four others 
were admitted at a time within the bar, for the examination of the 
books upon the shelves. The opening of the Philological Room, 
and of a Reading Room about the same time by the members of 
the Fraternity, led to that great enlargement of the Library Rooms, 
and great increase of Library advantages and facilities, which took 



^2 Memorial of the 

place in the latter part of our College course. The ample rooms 
were now opened daily, instead of twice a week, for the delivery 
and return of books ; and they were kept open most of the day for 
consultation and reading. It was also in this period that these 
Societies were incorporated, that they might the better protect their 
very valuable property. A correspondent from the Class, familiarh^ 
acquainted with the history of the College, thus writes : 

" In the early part of our course, the Societ}?- Libraries were 
opened only twice a week, and we took our books through the 
window or slide in the door of the room in which the Library was 
kept. When a Freshman, I esteemed it a great privilege to be 
permitted thus to secure a Freshman's quota of books from the 
great Socials' Library of that day. The improvements in these 
Libraries durinsr our four years were certainly much greater than 
during any corresponding period since or before. A suiprising 
change took place between August, 1823, and August, 1827. The 
idea was to enlarge and improve the Libraries to the utmost of the 
then existing means. The members of both Societies vied with 
each other in their efforts for this purpose. They were not content 
with the popular books of the daj' ; but whoever will carefully 
examine will find that many of the most valuable works in either 
Library were added during this period." 

The College Library, at this time, occupied a very narrow room 
which ran across the middle of the second story of the " College." 
It was open to each Class for the deliver}^ of books once a 
fortnight. 

One of the brightest honors of the College, its freedom from 
distinctions on account of color, was won for it during our 
Course, and with no unimportant aid from our own Class. At the 
Commencement of 1824, Edward Mitchell, a young man to whom 
naught could be objected except that he was somewhat tinged with 
African dye, a native of Martinique, W. I., applied for admission. 
He was examined and approved by the Faculty. But the Trustees, 
who were then in session, refused to permit his admission, fearing 
its effects upon the College. He accordingly returned, disappointed, 
to his home. When this became known to the students, the classes 
held meetings, and chose a committee to intercede in his favor. 
One of the committee was our Classmate Cleveland, who approved 
himself through life so true an anti-slavery man. His ow^i 
complexion was dark for a Caucasian ; and it is stated, that in 
pleading for Mitchell he urged the argument, that, if color excluded 
from the College, he himself could not be a .member. The action 
of the Trustees was reversed ; Mitchell was sent for, went through 
the College course, and graduated, without, so far as we are aware. 



Class of 1827. 23 

a single insult from a fellow student. Indeed, his character, 
bearing, and intellect were such that he must have been shameless 
who could have treated him with disrespect. The decision was 
final. "Whatever theoretical opinions respecting slavery and the 
race of Ham may have been entertained by any one connected with 
the College, the question of color has never since been practically 
raised in its administration. 

The great Temperance Reformation in our land was inaugurated 
during our college-membership. The eminent services of Professor 
Mussey in this cause have become matter of history. One of his 
powerful addresses against the use of alcoholic drink was repeated 
before the students at their request, a short time before our 
graduation. The celebrated address of our Classmate Kittredge's 
brother on the Evils of Intemperance was delivered, Dr. Chapman 
states, January 8, 1827. Though the reformation had but just 
begun, there was a great contrast, in this respect, between College 
habits during the earlier and the later periods of our course. 
Colleges are among those communities that are most deeply 
indebted to this blessed reform ; and we trust that our own Alma 
Mater, whose sons took so prominent a part in its inauguration, 
will never cease to be zealous and active in its support. 

There are many things remembered from our College life, to 
which wo can only allude. Among these, are the interest which 
we felt in the Presidential Election of 1824, and the illumination of 
ttie CoUeoe and village on the evening following the inauguration 
of John Quincy Adams, March 4, 1825 ; the rapid clearing of the 
Church two days after this by an alarm of fire, and our hard 
work to save from destruction the house of Mrs. Davis, where ten 
students were then rooming ; the effort of the students during our 
Sophomore Spring Term 1o establish a uniform academical dress, 
with Class-marks on the sleeve akin to the Harvard crowVfeet, — 
a dress that continued till the coats then made were worn out, and 
no longer \ the visit of General La Fayette to Vermont in June, 
1825, when so many of us rode or walked to Windsor, to see and 
shake hands with him; our acquaintance, in the spring of 1826, 
with the famed Zerah Colburn, then an earnest, unassuming 
Methodist preacher ; the death of Adams and Jefferson on the 
Fourth of July, 1826 ; the interest awakened, during the latter part 
of our course, in the subject of physical education ; the gymnastic 
apparatus set up behind the '^ College," in 1826, by the students 
themselves, as there was then no Bissell to provide for \is by his 



24 Memorial of the 

tonnty ; the cricket clubs which covered the green, the next spring, 
adding this excellent game to onr previous list of modes of exercise ; 
the long discussion about Commencement music ; our Senior 
Auction, the Saturday afternoon before our final examination, 
when so much furniture and so many books were sold to our 
successors, in no small measure to speculators who bought to sell 
at an advance to the next Freshmen. "But we must stop lest our 
catalogue grow to an unreasonable length. 

Such, in brief outline, was that four years' course, to which we 
owe so much. This was distinctively a formative period for the 
College no less than for ourselves, and much of its subsequent 
prosperity may be traced back to springs within this period. In 
the review, whatever we may regret of individual defect, we 
may rejoice that the Class of 1827 did not fail to make its hearty 
contribution to the cause of progress. 



c. graduatio:n'. 

The four years, which seemed so long a period in the anticipation, 
hastened on and soon came to a close. Almost before we were 
aware, the last lesson had been recited, the last lecture heard, the 
last theme written, the last discussion held, the last society-meeting 
attended, the last examination sustained ; and we, who were so 
recently examined for admission, were now to graduate. 

The final examination, which was a brief test upon the studies of 
the whole course, occurred six weeks before commencement ; and, 
for the evening following, the Class were invited by the President, 
according to the usage of that time, to an entertainment at his 
house (the " Senior Levee," or " Senior Party,"" as it was commonly 
called), that we might there meet socially, some of us for the first 
time, the members of the Faculty, with their families and some 
other friends. There was a kind of aggravation, it must be con- 
fessed, in being thus introduced to the refinements and pleasures of 
Hanover society, just as we were on the point of quitting the spot. 
It was thought, doubtless, better for our studies that we should not 
hav^e an earlier introduction. Our Class Supper before parting will 
not be forgotten, our only Class festivity in the whole College 
course. iN'or shall we forget the evening prayers following the 
examination, when we were so fervently commended to the Divine 
blessing ; and when we stood as a Class to apply to ourselves the 



Class of 1827. 25 

fine lyric of Charles Wesley, which, in accordance with time- 
honored usage, was sung on the occasion to the old tune of 
Amesbury : — 

" Come, let us anew 
Our journey pursue, 
Roll round with the yenr, 
And never stand still till our Master appear; " &c. 

If we could not say that all our work had been " well and 
faithfully done," we were at least glad that another line applied to 
our College life with less force than to that of some other Classes : 
" We have fought our way through." So marked in our Class 
history was July 11, 1827. 

The " Senior Vacation," which followed, had been instituted in 
the days of early simplicity, to allow the Seniors to go home, get 
their new clothes, — often from cloth which their fond mothers had 
woven, — and make other preparations for graduation. Like many 
other customs, this still continued, after the original necessity for it 
had passed away. We returned from the vacation in due time ; 
and the Commencement Exercises of 1827 began on Sunday, 
August 19, with the Baccalaureate Sermon by the President. 
This sermon is characterized, in a report made at the time, as 
"judicious and impressive." Coming from Dr. Tyler's warm heart. 
andi3ronounced with his fervid eloquence, it was deeply impressive 
to us, who were immediately addressed. The Monday lollowing 
was variously occupied by members of the Class : in rehearsal 
before our accomplished Professor of Rhetoric from the stage 
erected early that morning in the College and Village Church, in 
paying last bills, in farewell calls, in mutual visits, in the commun- 
ication and discussion of plans of life, in arranging for corres- 
pondence, in exchanging autographs, &c. There were then no 
photographs to exchange. 

The public exercises of Tuesday were an Oration before the 
Adelphian Society by C. D. Clevelan-d, on "The Education 
and Character befitting an American Statesman ; " an Oration 
before the United Fraternity by A. Crosby, on " The Eelation of 
Men of G-enius to the Age in which they live ;" and, in the evening, 
an Oratorio by the Handel Society. As the first of these orators 
is no longer with us, we may quote from a report in the Boston 
Recorder, that " he handled his subject with a compass of illus- 
tration, thought, and allusion, that would not have disgraced one in 
a more advanced stage of literary pursuit." 

4 



26 Memorial op the 

The Social Friends had elected as their Orator that brilliant star 
of the Class, James Alvoed ; but domestic affliction forbade the 
deliver}^ of his address. It was the custom at that time, as 
for many years before, for the Societies in Colle.o-e, except the 
Phi Beta Kappa, to rely upon the Graduating Class for their 
Anniversary Orations. The Social Friends and United Fraternity 
retained this custom, unbroken so far as we arc aware, till 1837, 
when they united in selecting the accomplished George S. Hillard 
as their Orator. The published list of the Graduating Orators 
of the Social Friends commences, in 1795, with the honored 
name of Samuel Worcester, the father of our chissmate. 
Among the names which follow, are those of Roswell 
Shurtleff, Francis Brown, Levi Woodbury, and Rufus 
Choate. The list for the United Fraternity presents, among 
others, the names of Daniel Webster, Richard Fletcher, 
James Marsh, William Chamberlain, and George P. 
Marsh. The oration which the first of these delivered was read 
by the Editor, when a member of College, in the manuscript copy 
preserved among the archives of the Fraternity. From the Class 
next before ours, the Society Orators ac Commencement were 
Blodgett, Burns, C. M. Emerson, and C. Kimball ; from the Class 
succeeding ours, they were Folsom, Gregg, Long, Peabody, and 
White. 

The exercises of Graduation were on Wednesday, August 22 ; for 
Commencement Day had not yet been changed to Thursday. Of 
our own performances on that day, when we trod the platform in 
black silk robes hired for the occasion, it does not become us to 
speak ; and yet, as so many who took part in those performances 
have gone Irom us, may we not insert a single brief paragraph 
of general comment from one of several notices of the occasion, 
without seeming to be even indirectly violating the precept in 
Proverbs, xxvii. 2 ? 

"The assembly was unusually large, the day fine, and the 
performances of a high order. If it were not invidious, individuals 
might be named whose productions would have done honor to them 
even at a far more advanced period of life. What we have ever 
deemed of chief importance in a literary institution, the exercises 
of this occasion evinced habits of study and mature reflection, and 
showed, what its friends have long known, that at Dartmouth 
College it is fashionable to study." — Mew Hampshire Statesman. 

The Masters' Orations had been assigned to Oliver Carlton 
(who had honorably closed the long line of " Sophomore Tutors," 



Class of 1827. 27 

a j^ear before, when it was decided that the Sophomores should 
thenceforth be taught by the Professors) and Ceanjnjore Wallace. 
Neiiher was able to be present; and without further delay, the 
members of the Class of 1827 Q'Hi Juvenes ") were marshalled 
upon the stage, in successive sections, by Col. Amos A. Brewster, 
the Marshal of so many Commencements, to receive their degrees 
from one of the best ot men, and most paternal of College Officers, 
President Tyler : — " Pro auctoritate mihi commissa^^'' &c. 

Among the distinguished men uj)on the stage, the first object of 
attention, the especial 'Mion" of the Commencement, was the 
venerable Samuel Gray, one of the four who constituted, in 
1771, the first: Graduating Class of the College. His visit is thus 
noticed in the sketch of his life by Rev. Dr. Chapman, and in two 
of the papers of the time : — 

" Samuel Gray, A. M., the son of Samuel and Lydia (Dyer) 
Gray, was born at Windham, Ct., June 21, 1751, and" died there, 
December 13, 1836, JE. 85. He read law, practising in Windham ; 
was Assistant Commis'^ary General in the Revolutionary War to its 
close ; Clerk of the Windham County courts for more than fort}^ 
years, resigning in 1828. He attended the Commencement at 
Dartmouth in 1827, and pointed out the localities of the first rude 
college structures, with the place for a barbecue on his own 
graduation.'' — Alumni of Dartmouth College. 

" While retracing the scene of his early youth, it was amusing to 
hear bib remarks. Dartmouth College seemed to exist in his mind 
as it was in its primitive state — the plain of Dartmouth was then 
surrounded by a wilderness — here was a small opening, the trees 
felled and burnt over, and the stumps still standing. Here stood 
the rude fabrick of the old College ; and there the house of the 
first President and founder of the Institution ; and yonder a 
dwelling occupied by a Professor. 'Here,' says he, 'we travelled 
over the burnt logs to our recitations, and there stood a tree under 
whose shade we iL-^ed to recline.' He made n)any enquiries for his 
associates of former days, as if they still lingered there, and as if he 
expected to be met by their smiles and friendly salutations." — New 
Hampshire Post. 

•' His presence strikingly recalled to her sons those associations 
which ^ive to the kfdr\j history of the College a romantic interest, 
and should contribute to endear her to her sons." — iV. H. Statesman. 

The day closed, according to the custom of that period, with a 
levee at the President's house. 

The public exercises of Thursday commenced wqth Prize 
Declamation by eleven speakers from thi-ee Classes. Two of the 
four prizes were awarded to members of the Class of 1827, 
PiLLSBURY and Eastman. As the first has parsed from us, there 



28 Memorial of the 

can be nothing to forbid the statement that he had the remarkable 
success of winning prizes for declamation three successive years, — 
the greatest number possible. 

The Declamation was followed by an Oration before the Theo- 
logical Society, on " The InlEiuence of Individuals through Remote 
Generations," by Rev. Charles White, of Thetford, Yt., of the 
Class of 1821, afterwards President of Wabash College, Ind. ; and 
by the Inaugural Address of the new Professor of Chemistry, 
BEJ^jAMiisr Hale, a graduate of Bowdoin in 1818, afterwards 
President of the College at Geneva, IN". Y. 

At this Commencement, a Committee of the Trustees reported 
to the Board a new Code of Laws, which was enacted in a special 
meeting of the Trustees held in January, 1828. This Code, making 
some important changes, in the administration of the Institution, 
and the change in the Presidency, which occurred later in the same 
year, were introductory to a new period in the history of the 
College. The Board also took important action with regard to the 
College buildings. It was resolved to repair the old hall without 
delay, and to erect two new halls of brick as soon as a due regard 
to economy would permit. This resolve led to the erection of 
Wentworth and Thornton Halls, which were ready for occupation 
in 1829 ; and to important changes in the old edifice, now called 
Dartmouth Hall. The present Chapel was constructed in the 
centre of this Hall ; otlier public rooms were made in the building ; 
the rooms remaining for students were refitted, and those in the 
middle and lower stories renumbered ; while, in May, 1828, the old 
Chapel, heavy with its oak timber, was drawn by some forty yoke 
of oxen, with the aid of levers, across the plain to its present site. 
So " the old passeth away, and the new cometh." 

Upon the termination of our course, we had no ceremonial of 
Class Day ; but the genuine outburst of unstudied grief, when the 
actual parting came, breaking down the stoutest natures, — the 
clinging hands, the close enfolding, the streaming eyes, — will never 
be forgotten, — never! 

;^Ttiree years afterwards, there was a second marshalling of 
members of the Class upon the Commencement stage, to receive 
the degree of Master of Arts from the Rev. Dr. Loud, who, after 
a pi'ospei-oiis pi-esidency of thirt.y-flve years, during which (Can 
this be p iralleled?) EIGHT sons graduated, is now living in honored 
retirement. At this second sfradaation, our Class was represented 
in the Masters' orations, by our lamented xIlvord and Cleve- ' 
LAND ; who treated, the first of '• ximbition for Political 



Class of 1827. 29 

Distinction," and the second of " The Influence of New England 

upon the American Character." Were they still with us, the 

following tribute would not be inserted : — 

" Of the performances of the Masters, the audif nee would bear 
us out in si)eaking with unqualified praise. Their subjects were 
discussed with ability and learning, their language was simple and 
elegant, and their eh^cution distinct and vigorous. In both, there 
were passages that would have done honor to any of our scenes of 
public speaking." — New Hampshire Observer. 

These orations were both, to quote from the President's 
annunciation, in lingua vernacula. The old custom, that one of the 
Master's Orations should be in Latin, and the other in English, 
passed away about the time of our entering College. For the 
Commencement of 1823, the year of our entrance, a Latin Oration 
was assigned to Nathaniel G-. Upham of the Class of 1820, who 
has left us since his name was here written ; while, if a Master's 
Oration in Latin was delivered during our course, it has quite 
escaped our recollection. Indeed, for some time previous, this was 
the Commencement exercise which most frequently failed of 
performance. It had come to be regarded as chiefly a compli- 
mentary assignment, — a compliment to the scholarship of the 
individual, to the learning of the College, to the Latin Language, 
and to ancient custom. It is not wonderful that some were willing 
to accept the compliment without performing a labor which so few 
of the hearers could appreciate. 

The President had not ceased, in our day, to call ott" the Com- 
mencement exercises in Latin, the only language which it was 
then thought consistent with presidential dignity to use upon the 
anniversary stage, except in prayer, — an exception allowed, because 
Latin prayers would have oflended our Puritan fathers, as savoring 
of papistry. It was, consequently, still a question, whether the 
band should be directed to play up (this plain vernacular is said to 
have been once used by President John Wheelock, when his Latin 
failed of eflfect) by the words *' Muske expectatury or '' Mvsica 
expectetur'' ; just as it has been a question, in publishing the 
Triennial, whether Hanover should be Latinized by Hanoveria, as 
in 1795. by Leuphana, as from 1798 to 1831, or by Hanovera, 
as more recently ; whether Clement Long should appear as 
Clementinus (1828, &c.), or as Clemens (1843. &c.) ; Constant 
Storrs, as plain Constant (1807, &c.), as Constantias (1816, &c.) 
or as Constans (1849. &c.) ; Experience Porter, as Experientius 
(1804, cScc), as plain Experience (1840, 1843), or with the feminine 
name Experientia (1846, &c.), a name which manitestly makes this 



30* 



Memorial of the 



worthy man a woman, and would require, for uniibrraity, that 
Justice Willard should appear as Justitia JVillard, and Victory 
Hobbs, if the Queen of England would consent, as Victoria Hohbs ; 
and whether one of our Class should wear the name of Lyman 
Lewis Eix (1828—1846) or of Lymanus Lewis Rix (1849—1864), or 
of L3'manus Ludovicus Rix (1867). That certainly can be said of our 
Classmate, which cannot of most graduates, that his Latin is the 
more abundant, the longer he is out of College. 

As we know not how soon the Triennial may yield to the law of 
progress, and assume an English dress,* it may not be amiss to 
preserve, in our Memorial, a record of the Roman costume in which 
we appear in the latest Triennial, that for 1867. Indeed, this 
register may claim insertion as the document of our graduation. 
In transcribing! it, we make a few additions and corrections, 
obviously required. How we should rejoice, if none were needed I 



1827 

* Jacobus-Church Alvord, 

Mr., e Cong. 

Benjamin-Gordon Baldwin 
Levi Bartlett, M. D. ie37 

* Johannes Batchelder 
Thomas BeUoios 

*Abueius-i*ride Bio^Iow 
Daniel Blaisdell, Mr., Thesaur. 
S. H. S. 
♦Gulielmus'Boyden 
*JacobuS'Morris Chase, Mr., 
Coll. McDouo. III. Lingg. 
Lat. et Grific. Prof. 
*CaroIu.s - Dexter Cleveland, 
et Harv. 1827, Mr., LL. D. 
Univ. Ingh. 18G1 et Univ. 
N. Ebor. ]86(), Coll. Dick. 
Lingg. et Litt. Grasc. et 
Lat. Prof., Uni-.-. N. Ebor. 
Ling, et Litt. Lat. Prof. 
Johannes- Kendr'ick Converse, 
et Hamp. Sid. 1827, Mr. 
Alphaeus Crosb)^ 3Ir., Tutor, 
Lingg. et Litt. Lat. et 
Graec. Prof.let Emeritus 
Josephus-Addison Eastman 
*Eli Frencli, 1828, Mr. 
*Thomas-Child Hale 
*Carolus Hopkins, Mr. 
Samuel Hopkins, Mr. 
*Hamilton Hutchins,3Ir. 
EliscBus Jenney 
Edvinus Jenmson, Mr. 
Adams Jeweit, Mr., M. D. 
1850 et Lut. Paris. [Edin. 
18.37.1 
Alfredus Kittredge 
♦Carolus-Herber Little 



Obt. Mt. 
18.39 31 

18G7 65 
1842 47 

1833 25 

1865 04 



1869 66 



1868 67 


1842 40 


1865 59 


1851 45 


1836 31 



Obt. ^t . 
Leonardus Marsh, Mr. 
U. V. M. 1847, M. D*. 18-32, 
Univ. V. Mont. Lingg. 
Gr«c. et Lat. Prof., et Annt. 
et Phys. Anim. et Veg. 
Prof. 
*Gulielmus Olcott 1851 44 

♦Georgius Paine 18.36 29 

*Guliflmus Parker, Mr. 

Cone. 1865 62 

*Abel Patten 1864 58 

Eliplialet Pearson, Mr. 
■'David Pillsbury 1862 60 

Lymanus-Ludovicus Rix 
*Ctirol'us • Gilman Safford, 
31. D. 1840 1847 42 

Forrest Shepard, et Yal. 
1827, Mr. Coll. Res. Occid. 
1848, et in eod. Chem. 
Agricult. et Geol. Qiconom. 
Prof.C. A.S. 
*Samuel Smith 1837 .30 

*Steplianus Stark 1855 52 

Sewall Tevney, Mv., S. T. D. 
liowd. 1861 
♦Jonathan-Reynolds Thomp- 
son, 31. D. 1832 
Erastus-Cbase Torrey, M. D. 

Bovv^d. 1830 
David-Everett Wheeler 
♦Jonathan - Fox Worcester, 
Mr., M. D. Harv. 1832 1869 63 

40— *21 

1827. Georgms Haskell, M. D. 
1838. Alfredus Greenleaf, Mr. et 

Univ. Nov. Ebor. 1838. 
1844. Petrus Clark, Cone. 1827, Mr. 
1855. *Johimnes Jutau Sanborn, 

Mr. 1867 70 



*What'substantial reason is there for giving a Latin semblance to the Triennial 
Catalogue, that does not also apply to the Annual ? If the question had respect to 
genuine Latin, the Editor, from his love of the noble old language, and his desire 



Class of 1827. 31 

The additions we have made remind us how much our 
venerable Triennial has already j'ielded to the law of progress, 
and how greatly it has improved since we were in Callege. 
It had then no Index, so that, to find a name, we were obliged 
to hunt for it through successive Classes. This very con- 
venient addition was first made in 1831. Most are probably 

that its study should be cherished and extended, would not be inclined to propose it. 
But this is not the case. The question has respect mainly to certain imitative forms 
barbarous and uncouth, at whic;h Cicero would be even more amazed than we 
ourselves sometimes are. Is there any question that these will ultimately yield ? 
One must have, not so much an acquaintance with classical Latin, as a special 
familiarity with what may be called Triennial Latin, and the laws of its manufacture, — 
so far as there are laws, — in order to penetrate the disguises which many names wear 
in our lists of graduation. And, however intimate this familiarity, he is in some 
cases left in doubt what a man's name really is. He reads, for example, in our last 
Triennial, " Horatius Hatcli" and " Horatius Merrill." What is there to inform him 
that the name of the first of these graduates is Horace, and that of the second 
Horatio? In reading " Marcus F. Bridgmau " and " Marcus F. Dunklee, how is he 
to know that in the tirst case the name is Marcus, and in the second, Mark ? Nor can 
one be familiar with College Triennials without being greatly struck with their 
variableness and inconsistency in the forms of names, — the arbitrariness with which 
the great transmuter -us is added to one name and refused to another that has as good 
a claim, or added and refused to the same name in different editions, or even upon 
different pages of the same edition. 

There are two readings in our Triennial for 18G7, and the live preceding ones, that 
are quite peculiar. They are '"Dies Fayette Ayer " and " Samus Gerrish Dearborn." 
t' What can be these men's nunes?" one is tempted to ask. On investigation, he 
finds that the name of the first is simply " Day Fayette Ayer," and wonders that he 
does not fhid, upon tlie same principle of translation, " Hope L. Dana," •' King S. 
Hall," " Royal Call," " Ivory W. 11. Marsh," and " Kejoice Newton," changed 
into Spes L. Dana, Rex S. Hall, Regalis Call, Ebur W. II. Marsh, and Gaude 
Newton. The name of the second appears in the Annual Catalogue for 1849-50, as 
plain " Samuel G. Dearborn" ; so that here the stately Triennial has stooped to take 
up the colloquial Sam, and has endeavored to dignify it into a Latin appellation by the 
aid of a suffix •.—■:>am-ii.s. " O Ai-unciile Same,'' our nation might be apostrophized, 
" would it not be better that thy sons should content themselves with wearing their 
own proper names." 

These names. Dies and Samus, however, stand quite near together in the Medicrl 
list. It may be, therefore, that they were the sportive work of some waggish son of 
^sculapius, and have since retained their place by the force of prescription without 
examination,— through that vis inertice to which even Colleges are not strangers. If 
it were proper to pursue a subject sprung so incidentally upon us, and especially if an 
examination sliould be made of the Triennials of other Colleges, what an abundant 
harvest of examples might be gathered, in illustration of the difficulties and dangers 
which a Latin Triennial must encounter ! 

A beautiful pauiphlet lying bef )re us is a reminder that Columbia College, New 
York,— a venerable Institution some years older tlian our. own, and distinguished as 
a votary of classical learning, as the names of Moore, Anthon, and Drisler sufficieutlj- 
show,— has been in the habit, for a long time at least, of publishing its register of 
graduation in English. 



82' Memorial of the 

unaware that, in 1814, a Catalogue was published, in other respects 
like the Triennial, but j)resenting all the names in an alphabetical 
arrangement. The separation of the " Alibi's " from the Alumni 
was lirst made in 1834. In our time, the departed were simply 
starred, without any indication of the year of their decease, or the, 
age they had then attained. The first addition of the j^ear was 
made in 1849, chiefly from information furnished by Rev^ Dr. 
Chapman. The age attained was first added in 1858, and, in great 
measure, from the same source. In making these valuable additions 
Arabic numerals were wisely used, though perhaps the strictest 
consistency would rather have required the Roman. The next 
advance in this direction will perhaps be to add the place of 
decease, which we desire to know as well as the year. And of 
what vastly increased value the Triennial would be, if it would also 
inform us respecting the residence of the living. The number in 
each Class of Alumni was first stated in 1834 ; and the number 
starred in each Class, in 1852. The Classes of Medical Graduates, 
and the " Alibi's " of each year, were not counted till 1855. 

We value highlj^ the information given in respect to the 
profession of those whose names are recorded, by printing the 
names of clergymen in italics, according to the old Monitum : — 
" Ministri Evangelici Uteris Italicis exarati sunty We shall also 
welcome most gladly that record of those who served in the late 
War, which it Avas proposed to publish with the last Triennial, and 
which may be expected, we suppose, with the next. Why may not 
this information, which we value so highly, be made more complete 
by designating those of other professions and pursuits ? Unless a 
College is to be regarded as an ecclesiastical institution, in which 
no profession but the clerical is deemed worthy of account, why 
should it not equally' state who of its graduates become lawyers, 
engineers, merchants, &c. ? The recent inestimable work of Dr. 
Chapman, and the further assistance which he w^ould doubtless 
render, give our Alma Mater a great advantage for inaugurating 
additional improvements, which would render our Catalogues 
of College Graduates beyond comparison more acceptable and 
valuable. 

" But," it may be asked, " how is the increased expense to be 
met? Even as now-published, the Triennial makes a large and 
constantly increasing draft upon the College Treasury." A larger 
draft, it may well be thought, than is warranted by the benefits 
derived from re-printing so frequently a list of Latinized names) 



Class of 1827. 33 

with so small an amount of new matter in each issue. Might it not 
be sufficient to print the Catalogue once in five years, and then to 
invite returns from all living graduates of any change of residence 
or occupation ? And, with the greatly increased value of the 
Catalogue, would not graduates be glad rather to pay a moderate 
price for it, than to receive' it in its present form gratuitously ? 
Even as now printed, this gratuitous distribution every three years 
must at length break down, it* the College flourishes as we trust it 
will, from the great bulk of the Catalogue, and the large number 
who will be entitled to it. 

The handsome Annual Catalogue which has lately reached us, in 
clear type on tinted paper, calls for a word on the great improve- 
ment which has taken place in the style of printing the College 
Catalogues. The early Catalogues of the College, both Annual and 
Triennial, were rudely printed on broad-siieets, for posting on walls 
like auction and theatre bills. The Triennial of 1792 was in this 
form ; while that of 1795 was a coarse, dingy pam})hlet of eight 
octavo pages. The broad-sheet Annual was continued very nearly 
down to our own time, the change to a pamphlet form having been 
made in 1820. The list of tiie Medical Students was added the 
same year. The Circular giving information respecting terms 
of admission, courses of study, text-books, expenses^, times and 
seasons, &c., was first appended in 1822. Even with this Circular, 
the Annual Catalogues on which our names were first and last 
printed, were only uncovered pamphlets of sixteen pages. The 
Catalogue for the present year contains seventy-six pages. So may 
the College ever ^row !* 



D. OUR TEACHERS. 

We should wi'ong our fee^ini^-s, if we permitted this Memorial 
to bo finished without some siranie tribute to the able and excellent 



*Omission on Page 28.— The old Chapel, on its way to its present site, rested a few- 
years at the northwest corner of the Common, near the Academy, and was there 
useful, without degradation, as a vestry. 

As the subject of buildings may not again recur, let it be here added, that " The 
Fort," mentioned on page 18, was burnt in March, 1829. The alarm of fire broke up 
the 11 o'clock recitation, thus promptly excusing any that might have been unpre- 
pared in their lessons; and the writer was summoned from the lyric glow of Horace, 
to save his books und other property from more material flames. Seven students 
were unhoused with him. 

5 



34 Memorial op the 

men under whose tuition and charge we were, through four years, — 
no small part of life. As a body, they were eminently character- 
ized by intellectual ability, soundness of learning, thoroughness of 
instruction, impartiality and kindness of discipline, and purity of 
character. 

A list of the Facitlty of the College during the four years 
of our course, is presented below, as published in the Catalogues of 
1823,-4,-5,-6. When names are not found in all these Catalogues, 
the years in which they occur are stated ; and two appointments 
made in January, 1827, are inserted in brackets. ' 

Of those who were most directly related to the Class, brief 
biographical notices are added, mostly taken, by permission, from 
the Rev. Di.-. Chapmai^^'s admirable work on the Alumni of 
Dartmouth College. If it were not an undue extension of the plan 
of this Memorial, we should rejoice to attempt more extended 
sketches of those to whom we are so greatly indebted, and to 
express more fully our esteem and affection. 

In respect to others in the list, it has seemed sufficient to add in 
brackets the place and time of graduation, and, if no longer living, 
the year of decease, and the age then attained. 

Faculty of the College during the Four Years, 1823-7. 

Rev. BEiiTNET Tyler D. D., President. 

Ebenezer Adams, A. M., Frofe>fSor of Mathematics and Natural 
Philosophy. 

Rev. Roswell Shurtleff, A. M., Phillips Professor of 
Theology [1827, Professor of Moral Philosophy and Political 
Economy']. 

Reubex D. Mussey, M. D., Professor of Anatomy, Surgery, and 

Obstetrics. [Dart. 1803, Ob. 1866, M. 86.] 
Dakiel Oliver, M. D., Professor of Physiology, Theory and 

Practice of Physick^ and, Materia Medica ; and of Intellectual and 

Moral Philosophy. [Harv. 1808, Ob. 1842, M.. 54.] 
James F. Da:n"A, M. D., Professor of Chemistry, Mineralogy, 

Botany, and Legal Medicine. [Harv. 1813, Ob. 1827, M. 33.] 
Rev. Charles B. Hadduck, A. M., Professor of Rhetorick and 

Oratory. — 1826, Librarian . 
William Chamberlain, A. M., Professor of the Latin and Greek 

Languages and Literature. — 1826, Treasurer. 
[Rev. George Howe, A. M., Phillips Professor of Theology., 1827; 

Mid. 1822.] 
Ebenezer C. Tracy, A. M., Tutor, 1823. [Dart. 1819, Ob. 1862, 

M. 65.] 



Class of 1827. 35 

Ira Perley, A. B., Tutor, 1823,-4. 
Adams Moore, A. B., Tutor, 1824. 
Oliver Carlton, A. B., Tutor, 1825. [Dart. 1824.] 
Silas Aiken, A. B., Tutor, 1825,-6. [Dart. 1825, Ob. 1869, M. 70.] 
Preceptors of Moor's School : Archelaus P. Putnam, 
A. M., 1823 [Dart. 1819, Ob. 1859, M. 67] ; James L. Kimball, 
A. B., 1824 [Dart. 1824, Ob. 1833, JE. 34] ; Thomas Tenney, 
A. B.,1825 [Dart. 1825]; John [S.] Emerson. A. B.,1826 [Dart. 
1826, Ob. 1867, M. 66.] 
Librarian and Treasurer, 1823,-4,-5 : Hon. Timothy Far- 
RAR. [Dart. 1807]. 

Biographical Sketches. 

[From Rev. Dr. Chapman's *' Alumxi of Dartmouth College," with some 
additions. The number prefixed to a Sketch, or following the initials, D. C , de- 
notes the year of graduation at Dartmouth Co]lege. It will be understood that 
towns not otherwise designated are in New Hampshire. The order in which the 
Notices of our teachers are here arranged, is that in which we came under their in- 
struction.] 

1822. "Ira Perley, A. M., LL.D., the son of Samuel and 
Phebe (Dresser) Perley, was born at Boxf'ord, Mass., November 9, 
1799. He was Tutor at Dartmouth from 1823 to 1825 ; read law 
with Isaac Bedington Howe of Haverhill, Mass., and Daniel Milti- 
more Christie of Dover, D. C. 1815 ; entered upon practice at Han- 
over, in 1827 ; was Treasurer of Dartmouth from 1830 to 1835 ; 
reniov^ed to Concord in 1836. imd so continues ; has represented 
it in the 'New Hampshire Legislature ; was a judge of the N. H. 
Supreme Judicial Court, from Jnly, 1850, to October, 1852 ; was. 
appointed Chief Justice of the same Court in 1855, a [losition still 
occupied ; has ])ublished an Eulog}^ on Daniel Weljster, delivered 
before the X. H. Executive and Legislature, Deceuiber 22, 1852. 
He married Mary Sewall, daucrhter of John Nelson, D. C. 1803, 
of Haverhill, June 11, 1840. Daniel Perley, D. C. 1828, is his brother.'' 

One statement in the notice above is no longer true. While this 
Memorial is passing through the press. Chief Justice Perley 
retires from the bench which he has so long graced and honored, 
by reason of the limitation of age in the State Constitution. 

u Tutor Perley," as we still love to call him, whatever other 
titles he has since borne, was the first teacher whom the Class met in 
the recitation room. Our indebtedness to him for the instruction 
which we received in College will appear from the fact, that he was 
almost the sole instructor of the Class during the first year, and its 
chief instructor during the second. These two years constituted half 
of our whole College course; and to these two years his own work as 
a College Teacher was confined. Hence we considered ourselves as 
HIS Class ; and however much we reverenced, admired, or loved 



36 Memorial of the 

other teachers in College, we regarded him in an especial sense as 

OURS. 

"To the GIANT IN LEARNING, the GIANT IN MIND, 

The UNEQUALLED INSTRUCTOR,— We'll fill high our bowls, 
And fasten his memory firm in our souls." — Class Song of 1827. 

1816. " Charles Bricket Haddock, A. M., D. D., the son of 

William and Abigail Eastman (Webster) Haddock, was born at 
Franklin, Jmie 20, 1796 ; and died at West Lebanon, Januarj'' 15, 
1861, ^. 64. He studied divinity in Andover Theological Seminary 
two years in the Class of 1819 ; was Professor of Rhetorick at 
Dartmouth from 1819 to 1838'; was ordained ; became Professor at 
Dartmouth of Intellectual Philosophy and Civil Polity in 1838 ; 
resigned in 1854 ; represented Hanover in the 'New Hampshire 
Legislature four years ; was Charge d' Aftaires of the United States 
at Portugal, p]urope, from 1850 to 1854; resided on his return at 
West Lebanon, and, while at Dartmouth and since, preached in the 
adjoining towns in vacant pulpits. Bowdoin College, Me., gave the 
honorar}'- degree in 1843. Dr. Haddock published a volume of 
Addresses and other writings, including occasional sermons. He 
was a man of genial temperament, who ranked among the most 
accomplished scholars of the country?', and wrote with distinguished 
ability. He married, 1. Susan Saunders, daughter of Richard 
Lang of Hanover, August 19, 1819 ; 2. Mrs. Caroline (Kimball) 
Young, daughter of Richard Kimball of Plainfield [afterwards of 
West"^ Lebanon], [and sister of the well known author, Richard 
Burleigh Kimball, D. C. 1834,] July 21, 1841. Charles Haddock,. 
D. C. 1844, was his son, and William Townsend Heydock, who 
thus wrote his surname, D. C. 1819, was his brother." 

1822. " ADA3IS Moore, A. M., the son of William and Isabella 
(McClary) Moore, was born at Bedford, October 17, 1799 ; and 
died at Littleton, November 5, 1863, M. 64. He taught at the 
Bradford Academ}', Vt., six months, and at Peacham Academy, 
Vt., one year ; was Tutor at Dartmouth from 1824 to 1825 ; studied 
medicine with Dr. Burns of Littleton, and at Dartmouth Medical 
College, graduating M. D. in 1827 ; began ]n-actice that year at 
Littleton, and never left it ; published some valuable medical 
papers. He married, 1. Anna Mary, daughte)- of Moses Little of 
ISTewburvport, Mass., June 1, 1829 ; 2. Maria Little, her sister, in 
1843." 

1818. '• William Chamberlaix, A. M., the son of Gen. 
William and Jane (Eastman) Chamberlain, was born at Peacham, 
Yt., May 24, 1797 ; and died there, July 16, 1830, ^. 33. He 
taught Moor's Charity School at Hanover from 1818 to 1819 ; read 
law" the next year Avith Daniel Webster, D. C. 1801, at Boston, 
Mass. ; was Professor of Latin and Greek at Dartmouth from 1820 
to 1830, the year of his death, deeply mourned b}^ the College and 
its friends. He married Sarah L.. daughter of Dr. Joseph Gil man 
of Wells, Me., in July, 1823. William Mellen Chamberlain, D. C. 
1845, was his son, and Mellen Chamberlain, D. C. 1816, his brother." 



Class of 1827. 37 

It may be added to this brief sketch of one whose early death 
threw such gloom over the College, that his daughter, Sarah 
Gilman, became the wife of that admirable scholar, teacher, and 
man, Rev. John JSTewton Pntnam, of the Class of 1843, who was, 
fourteen years. Professor in the College of the G-reek Language 
and Literature, and who died, October 22, 1863, on his return from 
a visit to Europe for his health, when already on a steamer between 
Halifax and Boston. '• Such," writes Dr. Chapman, " was his 
popular bearing, noble spirit, and intellectual acumen, that no 
greater disaster could have happened to the College than the loss of 
this distinguished scholar." 

1791. "-Ebenezer Adams, A. M., the son of Ephraim and 
Rebecca (Locke) Adams, was born at 'New Ipswich, October 2, 
1765; and died at Hanover, August 15, 1811, ^. 75. He was Pre- 
ceptor of Leicester Academy, Mass,, from 1792 to 1806; then went to 
teach at Portland, Me. ; was next Professor of Mathematicks in 
Phillips Academy, Exeter ; afterwards Professor of Languages at 
Dartmouth from 1809 to 1810 ; was transferred to Mathematicks 
and ]!»3'atural Philosophy in 1810, filling the office to 1833, and 
retiring with great reputation. Many literary and scientifick 
Societies honored hiui with membership. He married, 1. Alice, 
daughter of Dr. John Erink, ot Rutland, Mass. ; 2. Beulah, 
daughter of Dr. Timothy Minot of Concord, Mass., May 17, 1807. 
•John Erink Adams, D. O. 1817, and Ebenezer Adams, D. C. 1831, 
were his sons." [Adams Jewett, D. C. 1827, was his nephew.] 

Of his daughters, Harriet Russell was married to John Aiken, 
Esq., and was the mother of Rev. Charles Augustus Aiken, Ph. D., 
of the Class of 1846, Professor in the College for seven years of the 
Latin Language and Literature, and recently elected President of 
Union College, Schenectady, N^. Y.; and Eliza Minot was married to 
Professor Ira Young, of the Class of 1828, who succeeded Professor 
Adams in his department of instruction, and occupied it with 
distinguished success for a quarter of a century. Her son, 
Chjrles Aui^ustus Young, of the Class of 1853, is now Professor of 
IN'atnral Philosophy and Astronomy in the College, presenting the 
rare case of a department of instruction occupied (and so occupied) 
in the same College by three generations of the same family. 

1799. '' Roswell Shurtleff, A. M., D. D., the son of William and 
Hamiah (Cady) Shurtleff, was born at Ellington, Ct., Aug, 29, 1773, 
and died at Hanover, Feb. 4, 1861, -zE. 87. "He was Tutor at Dart- 
mouth from 1800 to 1804 ; studied divinity; was Professor of Theol- 
ogy from 1804 to 1827 ; ordained an evangelist at Lime, Jan. 1, 
ISiO ; was pastor of the Congregational Church at Dartmouth 



38 Memorial op the 

College from that date to 1835 ; College Librarian from 1810 to 
1820 ; Professor of Moral Philosophy and Political Economy 
from 1827 to 1838 ; Professor Emeritus from 1838 to 1861. The 
University of Vermont conferred the D. D. in 1834. Dr. ShnnlefF 
resided at Hanover to the close of life, retaining in a remarkable 
degree his social vivacity and mental acumen. He married Anna, 
daughter of Rev. Joseph Pope of Spencer, Mass., September 2, 
1810." 

Of the two children who survived Professor Shurtleflf, both 
daughters, Anna Pope (now Mrs. Joseph Emerson, of Hanover) 
was first married to Rev. Evarts Worcester, of Littleton, of the 
Class of 1830 ; and Susan Augusta was married to Abner Hartwell 
Brown, of the Class of 1839, Professor in Willoughby University 
and in the Berkshire Medical School. Messrs. Worcester and 
Brown had both great excellence of scholarship and character ; 
were both highly esteemed Tutors in the College ; and both died at 
an early age, much lamented. 

" Bennet Tyler, A. M., D. D., the son of James and Anne 
(Hungerford) Tyler, was born at Middlebury, Ct., July 6, 1783 ; 
and died at East Windsor, Ct., May 14, 1858, M. 74. He graduated 
at Yale College in 1804 ; studied divinity with the Rev. Asahel 
Hooker, A. M., of Goshen, Ct. ; was ordained pastor of the 
Congregational Church at South Britain, Ct., June 1, 1808. and was 
dismissed in 1822 to become the fifth President of Dartmouth, a 
situation enjoyed by him from 1822 to 1828. He was next installed . 
pastor of the Congregational Church at Portland, Me., in 
September, 1828 ; was dismissed thence to be inducted President 
and Professor of Didactick Theology at East Windsor Theological 
Seminary in Connecticut, May 13, 1834, a position held by him for 
twenty-three years, to July 15, 1857, the date of his resignation, 
and less than a year before !us death. Xothing remarkable^ except 
a powerful revival of religion, came to pass during his brief 
presidency of six years ; but his character was very estimable, and 
all the important posts of which he was the incumbent were filled 
with dignity and reputation. His publications, thirty-five in 
number, were highly thought of. John EUery Tyler, D. C. 1831, 
was his son." 

While President of the College, Dr. Tyler raised a fund of 
$10,000 to aid needy students preparing for the ministry. His 
daughter, Eliza, was the first wife of Rev. Calvin Ellis Stowe, D. D.. 
a graduate of Bowdoin College and of Andover Theological 
Seminary, who was Professor of the Latin and Greek Languages 
and Literature at Dartmouth for a year and a half, 1831 — 33, and 
afterwards professor in Lane Theological Seminary, O., in Bowdoin 
College, Me., and in the Theological Seminary at Andover, Mass* 



Class of 1827. 39 

Our memories attest the propriety of the felicitous words applied 
to Miss Tyler by Rev. Dr. Gale, the biographer of her father :— 
'• She was known far beyond the circle of her family friends as a 
nightingale of song." 

A correspondent from the Class, in a letter received since the 
above was in type, urges that somewhat extended notices of our 
Teachers should be inserted in our Class Memorial. A similar 
request had already been received from another Classmate, who has 
made great eftbrt to obtain as complete a collection as possible of 
photographs of the members and Instructors of the Class, and with 
a success far beyond the anticipations of others. These requests 
express the reverence and aftection with which the remembrance of 
our Teachers is cherished by the Class ; and the Editor wishes 
most heartily that a fuller compliance with them than is here made 
were possible without extending this Memorial beyond the utmost 
limit that had ever been contemplated. The correspondent first 
mentioned speaks of the chief Instructor of our last year in these 
words, and afterwards applies them substantially to others: — 

" Dr. IShnrtleff certainly deserves a more extended and discrim- 
inating notice than has yet appeared, or than may perhaps ever 
appear, unless you take this opportunity to render a deserved 
tribute to his memory and intellectual acumen.'''' 

The Class will fully concur in the statement here made, and will 
unite in the earnest hope that the apprehension expressed will not 
prove true. More complete biographies of our College Instructors 
ouoht certainly to be written ; and, though other Classes would not 
permit us to ajjpropriate them wholly to ourselves, we should 
rejoice if the narrow limits of this Class Memorial allowed room 
for the work. Not only so, but we must all feel that it is high time, 
after the lapse of a hundred years, that the biography of Alma 
Mateu herself should be written ; and that every year's delay 
is endangering the loss of important information. How much 
perished in the i)assing away of Professors Adams and Shurtleff, 
of "good Madam Smith." — who cherislied to so advanced an age 
the memory of the husband of her youth. Professor John Smith 
a graduate in the third Class of the College, — of Mr. William 
Dewey,* and, quite recently, of the venerable President Allen ! 

*This worthy man, so remarkable an embodiment of the memories of the past, was 
for several years the nearest and an excellent neighbor to the writer; and it was in 
his house, now the residence of the widow of the deeply lamented Professor Chase. 
that the writer first roomed during a summer spent in Hanover in 1820. The 



40 .Class of 1827. 

Our Classmate proceeds to speak of the other of our two 
elder Teachers, — Par nohile Patrum, — who, as he states, " were 
very different in their marked characteristics," but who, never- 
theless, labored for so many years, side by side, with such 
harmony. We venture to make another quotation from this letter, 
because it presents an aspect of one of our Teachers, which very 
few of his pupils ever had an opportunity of observing, and which 
may have never before been presented in a printed sketch. Of the 
post-official life of Professor Shurtleff, which extended to nearly a 
quarter of a centur}^, and in which he gave so cordial a welcome to 
so many pupils revisiting college ground, mention has alreadj'' 
been made by another. It was a marked fulfillment of the wish 
expressed in the '■ Class Song of 1827," 

"May the world long be cheered by his humor and sense." 

" Professor Adams was one of the most pure-minded and upright 
of men. I have always thought his best qualities as a man were 
disclosed after his connection with the College ceased ; when he 
became a quiet citizen, and then an active magistrate. "With such 
a magistracy, the affairs of society could not but prosper. His 
sense of justice would not permit him to disregard the claims of 
society ; and his compassionate heart would not suffer him to be 
needlessly severe to the offender. He was a noble old man. 
Do not let this fair opportunity tail, to render to their memory a 
tribute they [Professors A. and S.] so richly deserve from us, and 
Irom the College they served so well. They must have had a 
powerful, if quiet, influence in uuiding it through the great dan- 
gers of the contest which was happily over just before our time."* 

Such were Our Teachers ! 

" Around these names will ]Memory cling 
With never-yielding grasp ; and fondly wreathe, 
About these brows, undying, fadeless crowns ^ 

Of honor and affection." 



southwest chamber of the house was occupied at that time by Rufl> Cuoate, then 
a Tutor in the College. What a corps of Tutors during tliat year, — JA3IES Maksh, 
already so eminent as a scholar and thinker (who very kindly shared with the writer, 
for a few weeks, his room, next north of the United Fraternity's Library), Nathan 
Welb\' Fiske, for so many years " an ornament of Amherst College" (who occupied 
at tliat time the room next south of the Social Friends' Library), and RuFUS Ciioate I 
What an influence was exerted by these men for the elevation of scholarship in the 
College ! The importance of retaining Tutors in our College Faculties has not been 
always duly appreciated. 

*'' Professor Chamberlain died young; but I have the impression that, if he had 
lived to the ordinary age, he would have ranked among our most distinguislied 
men. He was, like hU father, a man of great energy and inflexible purpose; and, 
with the influences of his early life, would almost certainly have been drawn to 
take an active part in public affairs." — A Letter- still more recent. 

The other of our two young Professors was a nephew of Ezekiel and Daniel 
Webster, and, we need not say, shared abundantly in the talent of the family. 



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